not horrible nor great

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

The Amazon description lets you know this film is based on the Manson murders. The production keeps that fact hidden until the end. The film concentrates on the victims. We are never introduced to the killers or know their motives. We only get glimpses of their faces. This is a less fictional account that attempts to work in terror by using dark scenes and the Manson infamous "creepy crawly" aspect. The killings were not as horrific and graphic as other films. In other films they burst in and it is well lit. In this one they stealth in the dark keeping to the accounts.The production fell short of the intended effect, partly because we all knew there was no final girl.Knowing the ending means they need to bring something new to the film and while hiding all the faces of the killers was new...that doesn't make it. Being a mainstream production I expected more than low budget effects. There was some camera light glare in the opening police scene. In one of the stabbing scenes you can hear the knife making a spring noise. They are not even showing the knife stabbing, why are they using a loud fake retractable blade? I do miss the old stereo equipment, striped bell bottoms, TVs, and nightly station sign offs so we all knew when to go to bed.Guide: No sex or nudity. Rated "R" for violence and language, although I don't recall hearing much dialogue. The "Purge" series or "Hell Night" type films are better for this type of horror because we don't know the ending.

How could you do this to the families and names of those who were killed? Making up your own story as it suited you, despite near 50 years of fact based evidence. Sure lets have him die being dragged out a window of a truck and get killed with a sledgehammer oh and make him look like a drug user pot head despite the fact of .. well who cares about what happened lets make it even worse if possible and more money!! over and over with. The film makers should be thrown in jail profiting of the deaths of those slaughtered in real life. Scum each and every one.

"Wolves at the Door" is a boring and shallow slasher with no storyline or character development. The screenplay instead of build tension, is boredom.In 1969 in California, a family is disturbed by a group that breaks in their house. Later four friends celebrate the farewell of one of them to Boston. Out of the blue, two men and two women break in their compound and they are murdered, one by one. Who are they, killers and victims? The viewer will learn in the beginning of the credits only. Don't waste your time watching this flick is the best anyone can do. My vote is two.Title (Brazil): Not Available

Wolves at the Door (2016) is a slasher film inspired by the Manson murders of 1969. But this particular film is just a plain slasher film with no real story in it. The slashers, a man and three women presumably Charles Manson and his groupies, their faces are never seen. You only see them in shadows. No depth into any of the characters.On the plus side of things, it does have plenty of jump scares if that's all you are into. But this film has no insight into the real life murders of Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, or Wojciech Frykowski. The film is just a dumb slasher flick, nothing more.